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Socrates among the sophists

May 7, 2014 by James Kalb

I have a brace of new pieces up, one at Crisis Magazine about how bad ideological pluralism is and one at Catholic World Report on Socratic questioning as a weapon against technocracy.

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Lent and technocracy

April 9, 2014 by James Kalb

Those are the topics of my two most recent online columns, one at Crisis Magazine about how to infuse politics with a bit more soul, and one at Catholic World Report about why the Church can’t possibly use modern public language to speak to modern man.

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Rebuilding Christendom

March 11, 2014 by James Kalb

I make the pitch for mild Catholic separatism in my current column at Catholic World Report.

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Notes for revolutionaries

March 9, 2014 by James Kalb

Jared Taylor has a lengthy and very favorable review up of my most recent book: “Against Inclusiveness, by independent scholar James Kalb, is one of the most quietly subversive books to be published in many years.”

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Arguing over argument

February 12, 2014 by James Kalb

There’s a new piece I wrote at Crisis Magazine about snark and willful stupidity on the Internet, and the importance of plugging imperturbably away.

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More on subsidiarity

February 6, 2014 by James Kalb

I have an additional piece on the topic up at Catholic World Report. The basic point is extra ecclesiam nulla subsidiaritas. You’re not going to get subsidiarity apart from an understanding of the world that doesn’t seem to exist in secular public thought today.

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What is normal?

January 15, 2014 by James Kalb

That’s the issue considered in my latest column at Catholic World Report. The big question today is whether the expression means much of anything.

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Will the Church return to type?

January 9, 2014 by James Kalb

That’s the original title of my latest piece at Crisis Magazine. It says that the dispute between progressive and traditionalist Catholics is a dispute over whether the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has an essential nature.

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Inclusiveness and Crisis, part II

December 12, 2013 by James Kalb

Crisis has published the second part of my two-part piece on inclusiveness.

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Subsidiarity

December 10, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the topic of my latest column at Catholic World Report.

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